TODAYS QUOTES ON LIFE

[prasanna]

Life Quotes


Abraham Lincoln:

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.



Albert Einstein:

   True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein:

   Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Schweitzer:

   There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.


Alice Walker:

   Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Amelia Burr:

   Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Anais Nin:

   The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin:

   Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Annie Dillard:

   How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.


Benjamin Franklin:

   Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.


Bertrand Russell:

   The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.


Buddha:

   If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Carl Sandburg:

   Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Carl Sandburg:

   Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Chinese proverb:

   When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Colette:

   Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.


Corita Kent:

   Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.


Dorothy Thompson:

   Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.



Edna St. Vincent Millay:

   My candle burns at both its ends;
   It will not last the night;
   But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends --
   It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay:

   Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

Elbert Hubbard:

   Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard:

   Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt:

   I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Elie Wiesel:

   The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
   The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
   The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
   And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

       (Oct. 1986)


Elizabeth Drew:

   The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Emily Dickinson:

   Love—is anterior to Life—
   Posterior—to Death—
   Initial of Creation, and
   The Exponent of Earth—



Emily Dickinson:

   That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson:

   To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.


F. Forrester Church:

   Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Franklin P. Jones:

   Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.


George Bernard Shaw:

   I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Eliot:

   What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Sand:

   Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

George Santayana:

   Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Germaine Greer:

   Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Goethe:

   A useless life is an early death.

HH the Dalai Lama:

   What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.



Helen Keller:

   Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.


Henry James:

   Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
   Life is but an empty dream!
   For the soul is dead that slumbers,
   and things are not what they seem.
   Life is real! Life is earnest!
   And the grave is not its goal;
   Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
   Was not spoken of the soul.

Isaac Asimov:

   If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.


James F. Bymes:

   Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

Jean-Paul Sartre:

   Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Joan Baez:

   You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.


John Lennon:

   Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Kalidaasa:

   Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
   Look to this Day!
   For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
   In its brief course lie all the
   Verities and Realities of your Existence.
   The Bliss of Growth,
   The Glory of Action,
   The Splendor of Beauty;
   For Yesterday is but a Dream,
   And To-morrow is only a Vision;
   But To-day well lived makes
   Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
   And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
   Look well therefore to this Day!
   Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Katharine Hepburn:

   Without discipline, there's no life at all.

[Pravin Kumar]

[/sizBuddha:

Prasannaji,

Though all quotes are very good I liked the below mentioned of Lord Buddha the best. Just see a bud of a flower before you go to sleep in the night. When you wake up next morning you see a blooming fragrant flower. What happened in the night? From where did the flower gets its frangrance and how did it bloom? Who worked on it the whole night? Why does it take birth only in the night? Can anyone explain? It is nothing short of miracle and the working of HIM. So too we bloom when we go the right path tirelessly and in the morning we are ready to spread the fragrance.

  If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Pravin Kumar
e]

[prasanna]

THANK U PRAVINJI FOR YOUR FINE EXPLANATIONS TO   LORD BUDHA'S QUOTE.





WITH LOVE AND REGARDS,

PRASANNA

[tourbi]

Thank you both for your  beatuful quotes.  Thank you for all your time and energy that you put into sharing these.

[symulhaque]

Very nice and fruitful quotes based on life. thank you for sharing.